and snowboarders are some of the first to notice. >> catherine hayhoe and alex diebold, tank you both. rachel maddow starts now. >> thanks for joining us. when last we looked in at the elections this year, republicans were mad about the last round of polling from the new york times. polling that showed democratic candidates for senate. challengers and incumbents to republican incumbents were polling way better than the beltway common wisdom would have you believe. the numbers in the last new york times poll were so good that republican wise men like karl

rove were denouncing the polling as skewed, fake, unfairly biased against the republicans just like all the 2012 fake polls that told us that president romney would lose the to barack obama. that was the big news out of the south for this year's elections. in alaska the democrat in the senate race there mark begich was helped by republicans many the alaska state legislature. they made decisions closing out their session that will probably put on ballot the issue of raising the minimum wage and legalizing pot, two items expected to pass alaska if they are on the ballot and they could drive up voter turnout for voters who are likely to vote democratic. that's good news for democratic

u.s. senator begich who would be giving everyone a raise. that's a comfortable place to be on a ballot. the democrat running for re-election in colorado, senator mark udall. his opponent is named cory gardner who has a long history of supporting and sponsoring anti-abortion he measures that would ban the pill and other forms of conception as well as criminalizing abortion. since he decided to run for senate in colorado he has changed his position on the bills. he's now trying to convince the state that he's not against contraception. that's why last week was a good week for mark udall. he's been pushing the issue about cory gardner being against contraception. in the middle of cory gardner trying to convince the state he

doesn't want to outlaw contraception anymore. in the middle of the fight cory gardner got endorsed by rick santorum. the guy who came in second to mitt romney in the republican primary after campaigning as the guy who would use the presidency if he got it to advocate against birth control. contraception according to rick santorum is not okay. >> one of the things i will talk about that no president talked about before is the dangers of contraception. the whole sexual libertine idea and many in the christian faith thought it was okay. >> rick santorum didn't become the nominee for president in 2012 but he wasn't far off. he basically came in second. here is something to keep an eye on now in terms of whether or not the republican party will have to go through another fire

and brimstone don't use contraception phase in presidential politics. part of the reason that plays so prominently in republican politics every four years is every four years all of the republicans who want to run for president have to try to win the iowa caucuses run by the republican party. for almost a generation the iowa republican parties has been under the control of the fire and brimstone guys. the social conservatives who prioritized issues like abortion and contraception and prayer in schools and the evils of gay people. that's how guys like mike huckabee and rick santorum have done well in iowa, while candidates who can't compete on those issues like, say, rudy giuliani, get tipped up when they have to avoid iowa because they don't want to send months getting asked about what the new testament says about iuds. in 2012 after the iowa

republican caucuses collapsed into chaos with romney, santorum and paul each sort of winning the iowa caucuses, which means nobody won, with a bribery scandal related to the michele bachmann campaign, embroiling the manager for mitch mcconnell's campaign. when everything went wrong for iowa republicans in 2012, it was a mess in 2012, when that happened, as soon as their role so badly, and the republican party in iowa basically collapsed. the folks who took it over after the collapse, it was not the social conservatives who dominated the state party for so long. it was not mainstream republicans. the it was not the astroturf, corporate-funded tea party party groups that took over in some other states. no. in iowa, when the iowa republican party collapsed after 2012 when they screwed up the

election so badly, the folks who took over the republican party were the ron paul people. on the one hand, you know what? it's just one state. who cares what faction or another is running any one political party in any one state? on the other hand, who controls the republican party in iowa says you have to determine cowboys rode dinosaurs. here's the thing to watch now. the ron paul supporting chairman who took over the all but destroyed iowa party after the 2012 caucuses was such a disaster that ron paul supporting guy who took over after everything fell apart, he has resigned now as chairman of the iowa republican party. he resigned to work for the rand paul political action committee. a couple weekends ago in iowa there was a chaotic meeting of the governing board of the state republican party. then a vote in which most of those voting appeared not to

know what they were voting for. it appears the social conservatives were able to take the party back. the brimstone folks are back in charge. the new chairman is the head of the group that calls itself the family leader. they spell it in all a capital letters except for the lower case i. they want to de-emphasize the role of the i, the individual, in favor of the all capital letters family. yeah. this is a super hard-core, anti-gay, anti-abortion social conservatives group. to give you the flavor of who took over the iowa republican party, in that last republican presidential primary year where mitt romney was running alongside rick santorum and

michele bachmann and rick perry, the republican party endorse bid the family leader guy who is the chair of the state party, his candidate in 2012 was none of the folks i mentioned. none of them including rick santorum none of them was right wing must have on the god, gays and guns issue. he endorsed judge roy moore, the crusader judge famous for erecting the ten commandments on government property. that was his candidate. if you like fire and brimstone in presidential politics there was a brief shining moment when iowa was going to stop that because the ron people took over. now it's over and it will be -- iowa will be more hardcore social conservative, anti-gay, ten commandments in the courtroom than ever before. that little noticed decision that just happened this weekend

could have a huge effect in terms of the viability of various strands of republican politics over the next couple of years. in june they can have a chance to take the brimstone guy out. so if they don't want a big conversation about banning birth control, we'll see if the national republicans weigh in on what's going on in iowa to try to reverse what the state did. they can reverse it in june. if they don't they have their chairman. if the state doesn't reverse what they did, prepare for a very santorum 2016. invest now in cowboy-style dinosaur saddles for the straw poll. while the hardcore social conservatives are apparently resurgent in iowa and quietly -- nobody is paying attention in

the beltway -- but they are quietly rallying national republican presidential politics for two years in the process. while that's happening in iowa there is also the world's tiniest effort under way to are bring back mitt romney as the republican presidential nominee again for 2016. do you see the picture? mitt 2016. also this is one of the weirdest mitt romney things i have seen in a long time. mr. romney is back. a house race in idaho. i can't pledge for sure this is a green screen. it looks like they have dropped him into a pseudo oval office in font of a green screen to create the impression that mitt romney may not be president of the united states of america but he's definitely the president of something. watch this. >> washington spending is out of control. you can take it from me, the

conservative choice for congress is mike simpson. i know because i have seen him in action. >> mitt romney in a not quite oval office. isn't it weird the way they dropped him in there. what's the weird reflection? an oval office with a wall mirror? i don't know. from that quasi presidential position, mitt romney is back endorsing in the idaho house race, also the senate candidate who said she would be good in washington because she castrates pigs. and at the last minute mitt romney yesterday jumped in to endorse a candidate running today in the republican primary for the u.s. senate seat in north carolina. literally he made the endorsement the day before the election. this is the seat currently held by democratic u.s. senator kay hagen. the koch brothers funded group afp is running millions of

dollars of ads against kay for months to try to soften her up for whichever republican runs against her. it was today that north carolina voters went to the polls to decide who will be the republican running against kay hagan. the republican establishment like mitt romney got behind one candidate. the current speaker of the north carolina house, tom tillis. social conservative mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas endorsed a baptist pastor in the running as well. senator rand paul got behind a north carolina doctor who has never before run for office. heading into tonight's voting it was the rand paul endorsed greg brannon who had a chance to have forced the frontrunner into a runoff. they would love a runoff. obviously the best outcome for them is if they ended up running against mr. brannon. democrats would have the chance to run against someone who says

everyone has the right to own a nuclear weapon. just forcing him into a runoff would mean the republicans had to keep fighting each other until mid-july before they could turn their full focus against kay hagan. democrats would love it. they have been running ads that would arguably boost the doctor guy and hurt the house speaker guy. it's all in the hopes from the left that democrats could maybe pick their own opponent against kay hagan or prolong republican in-fighting. polls in north carolina close tonight at 7:30 p.m. local time. at this point with just over a third of all precincts reporting it appears the establishment candidate has 45.1% of the vote. that would put the tillis 17 points ahead of the tea party candidate favorite greg brannon.

17? never do math on television. mark harris is ten points be behind mr. brannon. they have a way to go counting votes, but the early returns at least don't look that close. mr. tillis wants 40% of the vote plus one so he could avoid a runoff. he needs the early returns to hold up as the votes come in if he is to avoid a runoff and go to the general election campaign. we'll keep you posted as the numbers come in. joining us is a political reporter from the charlotte observer covering north carolina politics for more than three decades. thanks for joining us. >> nice to be here. >> the results may take a long time to come in and you can't tell what you should extrapolate but do you expect the result will hold up and tillis will get

the nomination tonight? >> i do. i think the early polls are consistent -- the exit polls are consistent with recent surveys and political polls that show tillis avoiding a runoff. democrats would love a runoff. republicans would hate it. >> in terms of the democrats preferences here, it was clear they were hoping for a runoff. that's why they were trying to hurt tillis. i don't know if they boosted brannon but they wanted the contest among the republicans to keep going. obviously there is strategy in terms of republicans training fire on each other. is there a big difference between the guy being billed as the rand paul tea party candidate and mr. tillis being billed as the establishment guy? are they in the same place on the ideological number line? >> not really. they sounded alike during the

campaign, a debate a week or so ago. they all denied climate change. tillis joined his a opponent during the shutdown when he opposed the vote to end the shutdown. there was very little space between him and greg brannon and mark harris on the issue. nobody would confuse tillis with a tea party candidate. he was an ibm executive for years. once in raleigh, he had a conservative record. just like nobody would consider him a tea partier, nobody would consider him a liberal either. he pushed legislation that resulted in the voter act that you talked about on your show. denied expansion of medicaid coverage and rejected obamacare on a number of things that are

very conservative. >> it seems the national attention has been -- those covering north carolina from a national perspective are under the impression that north carolina took a sharp right turn. it isn't just reflected in the presidential results of the state going for president obama the first time he ran and not going for it the second time he ran. the voting rights act, the decision not to expand medicaid, abortion legislation. other legislation in north carolina that's perked on the national radar represents a pretty significant shift in terms of the way the state is being governed and that must be therefore controversial in the state. that's what it feels like nationally. is that how it's viewed inside north carolina? >> pretty much. the state has taken a sharp turn. you have a general assembly ruled by republicans for the first time in over a hundred years.

you've got a republican governor for the first time in a long time. at a presidential level it's a purple state. you know, obama had great turnout efforts in 2008 and 2012 the down here. had a lot of support mobilized voters and won it in 2008. lost it barely in 2012. you know, republicans in the legislature have drawn their own districts. they are good for another ten years or what's left of this decade. it will be hard to dislodge them from offices and the state legislature. >> it seems the one state-wide opportunity that a lot of either purple state minded or blue state minded north carolinians will have the is to vote against the speaker of the house who will be in the contest he can't gerrymander. that will make it a race of national significance. i envy you the chance to cover it from close up every day it's

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you know about the george washington bridge lane closures, at least by september 12 which was kind of when it was happening or at the end of when it was happening. you knew about the that. >> correct. >> you knew the mayor was displeased about this. >> correct. >> and bridget kelly's reply to the mayor's displeasure was, good. >> correct. >> given that information, did you do anything with it? >> no, i didn't. >> that surprises me. >> today for the fist time a member of the chris christie administration gave testimony under oath in the bridge scandal. christina remna worked for bridget kelly when some sort of still unexplained political decision was made to shut down access lanes on the busiest bridge in the world apparently to punish a new jersey town. governor christie's defense so far is to plead ignorance of what his staffers were doing. mostly his defense has been to

blame the whole thing on bridget kelly. while the testimony today wasn't particularly flattering to she described kelly as frequently overwhelmed and insecure. this was not a nice day of testimony about bridget kelly. christina also laughed off the idea that bridget kelly might be responsible. she might be responsible for having cooked up the plot herself on her own terms. which is what chris christie's defense relied on. watch this. >> one way i would describe bridget is a little insecure. she relied heavily on other people, i think, to make decisions for her. i think that was absolutely the case up until she became deputy chief of staff.

she didn't have anyone to make decisions the for her anymore. >> i'm not sure i follow when you say making decisions for her. what kind of decisions would she have people make for her? >> she looked for guidance a she was not a decision maker, i would say. it sounds like bridgette kelly because she was constantly checking before she made a decision on her own. >> i don't want to put words in your mouth. what you said is bridget wasn't a decision maker, correct? >> yes. >> okay. and that's not a criticism. in any office, any structure, any corporation, any business, any government entity there is a chain of command. i have defined her in the past and i will do so today. she was a soldier who took

orders and executed and had people that responded to her and she would relay the orders. you were in the chain of command. is that accurate? >> i believe so. >> yes. >> my point on this would be, when it comes to the attention -- here's why the committee in my humble opinion the purpose of the committee is to do a few things. i believe there was an abuse of power. the purpose is to find out who was the architect of the abuse of power, how deep did go, who gave the order, and why. do you believe bridget kelly broke from her persona, her responsibility and in the exchange of e-mails broke from her course of action and that bridget kelly orchestrated and was the architect of the theory

around a study and to take it from three lanes to one? do you believe that? >> i wouldn't say she was the architect, but i would say she instrumental in the process. i believe that, yes. >> do you know who was the architect of it and who worked with bridget kelly to order the shutdown of the lanes? >> i don't know directly. we have theories, but i don't know. >> she says the woman you are blaming this scandal on could have been an instrument. she could have been instrumental in orchestrating what happened on the bridge but there is will no way she was the architect of it. okay. who was the architect of it then? christina renna quit the christie administration in february after the scandal. today she was the first administration figure to give under oath testimony in the case. her testimony did not support

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forum every year. honestly, it is an event worth feeling conspiritorial about. for the presidents and prime ministers and ceos and celebrities and everybody else you put in the category of elite. tomorrow the world economic forum which we associate with davos, glamorous swiss alps davos. the world economic forum will convene somewhere else. tomorrow, the world economic forum is convening in the capital city of nigeria, a huge country, 170 million people, the most populous in africa. nigeria bleeds oil when you poke it and leveraged its oil resources to be the largest economy in africa, bigger than

south africa, bigger than everybody else on the continent. so the world economic forum is convening in nigeria's capital city to showcase nigeria as the economic engine of africa. the idea is to get the davos set out of the swiss alps so they start the thinking about that can i as a good place to invest. because that starts tomorrow at the hilton in downtown abujah in nigeria. within the last three weeks there have been two huge, deadly bombings there. the most recent was last week, 19 people killed. then april 14th, a huge blast at a local bus terminal that killed more than 70 people. responsibility for the huge bombing was claimed by a radical islamist group which called itself the nigerian taliban but

now call themselves boka haram. that bombing was over shadowed by what happened the next day in the home territory far outside the capital city in the northeastern part of the country. the phrase boka haram translates to western-style education is forbidden. the reign of terror in nigeria over the past five years resulted in all of the schools being shut down in the region where the group is most active. they are opposed to western-style education for anyone in nigeria but particularly for girls. the only reason the chebok school was open after that bomb blast was to let students take their final exams to try to get into university. but a day after pulling off the bombing in the nation's capital, boka haram fighters descended on the school in huge numbers, set the school on fire and took off into the jungle with more than

300 teenager girls from the school. several dozen of the girls escaped the first night as they were taken into the jungle. more than 270 of them are thought to be missing. it is three are weeks now after the abduction. this disturbing video shows the head of boka haram happily saying he will sell them on the open market. it is not the first time he made an appearance like that in a video. almost a year ago the same leader of the group released another video claiming he was about to start abducting girls and women and do it against the nigerian military, saying they went after their families when they were fighting in the northeastern part of the country. so they announced in may they would start abducting girls as part of the military strategy in nigeria.

indeed, since then over and over they have been kid that kidnapping smaller numbers of women and girls. they did it in november, january, february. now they have more than 270 girls they took all at once. with the mass abduction, the eyes of the world are upon nigeria. just today there were protests all over the world at the embassy in washington, protesters wearing red shirts that read "bring our girls back" chanting. there were protests at the consulate in new york and in los angeles this week in san francisco. london. those are in addition to the ongoing protests in nigeria itself. the government in nigeria is a weird mix of incompetent and oddly silent in the crisis so far. i mean no disrespect. the first word from the nigeria

military was all girls except eight were freed right after they were abducted. that's not true. it was never true. nobody knows why the military said it. since then the president of nigeria has been silent on the issue until a couple of days ago when he made assurances that his government and the nigerian military were doing all they could to get the girls back. in addition to the protests over the past weekend today there was a somber moment of silence on the east steps of the united states capital attended by a lot of members of congress and by barry black, the chaplain of the senate you may remember from the government shutdown. he speaks with intense gravitas. >> we are here today because we refuse to be indifferent to this tragedy of more than 200 nigerian girls being kidnapped. we refuse to be indifferent because god has entwined our

destinies. an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we refuse to be indifferent because as people of faith, we are challenged to love our neighbors as ourselves and that when we help the hurting, we are doing the work of god. so i would like for us to begin with a moment of silence. i will end that moment of silence with a prayer. let us bow our heads for a moment of silence. >> that was today on the east steps of the u.s. capitol. immediately after chaplain black spoke after the prayer, he handed the microphone to the minnesota senator amy clobishar. we'll speak with her live in a moment.

before we do that, president obama also made remarks on this issue today. he spoke with nbc's al roker in an interview that was primarily about the climate change report released today. but the president made news when he announced a new offer from the u.s. government to help try to find the girls. the president tonight confirmed that the u.s. not only made an offer but the nigerian government accepted and u.s. help is on the way. >> look, this is a terrible situation. boka haram has been killing people and innocent civilians for a long time. we have always identified them as one of the worst local or regional terrorist organizations there is out the there. i can only imagine what the parents are going through. we have offered and it's been accepted help from the military

and law enforcement officials. we're going to do everything we can to provide assistance to them. in the short term, our goal is to help the international community and the nigerian government as a team to do what we can to recover the young ladies. we also have to deal with the broader problem of organizations like this that can cause such havoc in people's day to day lives. >> the president confirming in an interview with al roker that the united states will help try to find the girls. a state department says what the united states is doing is sending a coordination cell. if you know what a coordination cell is, you are one ahead of me. meanwhile, as the political and business elites of the world

economic forum descend on nigeria's capital city tonight there are reports that more nigerian girls have been abducted. two towns in nigeria are reporting between 8 and 11 girls aged 12 to 15 were taken in the last 48 hours, again by fighters believed to be boka haram. joining us now is senator amy clobishar of minnesota. she's asking president obama to take further immediate action to help recover the girls. thanks for being here. >> thank you, rachel, for shedding light on this heinous crime, this atrocity. we have a situation here where these girls were doing nothing more than what girls do in america every day. they were taking final exams, kidnapped at gunpoint, taken into the forest. for weeks all the help they got was their parents desperately in agony looking for them with bows and arrows. that's all they got. finally the eyes of the

international community are on this tragedy. i will note as many girls are missing as we lost people in the horrible tragedy with malaysia airlines, and you know how the nation was riveted on that story. it is time to look at human trafficking not just in nigeria but all over the world. millions of girls are sold into sex. the average age is 13. not old enough to drive a car. if we want to look at a major tenet for the foreign policy and something the u.n. should be on and issuing a resolution and declaring boko haram as a terrorist organization like our country has done this is it. elevating the status of women and girls. not allowing them to be sold for $12 like the leader of this group said he wants to do and said this is what god ordered him to do. i'm glad the president is sending in counterterrorism

experts, sending in people that are hostage negotiators. but i believe this is a moral call for action, not just for our country, but in the world. i'm glad that 20 women senators came together across party lines and asked the u.n. to declare this a terrorist organization and asked our president to devote resources to this. >> what's clear to me at least -- and i'm just a layman looking at these things. looking at the tape, the propaganda around this crime they have committed, this act of terrorism, is that they are hoping for as much international attention as they can get. they are essentially hoping to look as evil as possible and get as much attention as possible. they have apparently abducted further girls after the burst of international attention to what they have done. they are doing this because of larger ideological goals that they have. does that mean this is not

trafficking, that this is something that needs to be treated more as a terrorist act that should be responded to in a way we think of more in terms of counterterrorism actions? >> i believe that's why we are sending in counter terrorism experts. we have to look at this. clearly our country designated them as a terrorist group and the tactics they are using to make a scene while the world economic forum is there to kidnap more girls and issue videos, they are trying, you are correct, to get attention for evil ways. i think the world has to respond. beyond that, human trafficking is the third biggest criminal enterprise in the world, just behind drugs and guns. it is expanding because of the internet. it is expanding because people are just letting it happen. i led a trip to mexico with senator mccain's wife, cindy, who has outspoken on this and senator hicamp. mexico is working hard to get a handle on their problem.

in the u.s., we have our own problems. 83% of the victims in the u.s. of human trafficking are from the u.s. again, this is a terrorist group, and we need to be on on this. the u.n. needs to take this on and we have to take the lead in america. but we have our own problems to get on as well. this is happening in north dakota and in minnesota. >> senator, thank you for helping us understand this. stay in touch. i would love to stay in touch as the united states starts this reaction to it. to hear from you if you think the u.s. government is doing enough and how it evolves in the coming days. please stay in touch. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. debunktion junction is coming up and much needed.

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true or false, the governor of oregon once personally chased down an intruder at his office in portland and trapped the intruder in a revolving door. true or false? true. the year was 2005. he was in between being governor of the first time and governor the second time. he was working at foundation for medical excellence in portland, the governor is a doctor. it went like this. a receptionist spot an intruder. she ran to tell the doctor who gave chase. the bad guy escaped into the elevator. when he got to the ground floor, made the classic error of using the revolving door instead of the regular door and boom. the doctor stuck his foot on which he was wearing sandals and

not his customary cowboy boots. trapping the intruder in a glass cage where he held the guy until the authorities arrived. courage and quick wit in sandals. yes, that happened. next up. true or false. same guy. oregon governor, came to the rescue of a man in the audience during a debate. true or false? true. 2010. in the middle of the candidates debate in eugene, when somebody shouted is there a doctor in the house. there was. he stopped the debate. helped a man having a seizure. not only a doctor, he used to be an er doctor. of the incident, the doctor said i thought they were kidding. then i looked up and there was some one obviously in distress. so the old er reflex kicked in. the old er reflex, true.

that happened. and he won the debate. and, finally, true or false. yesterday, governor, same guy, saved a woman's life as he was on his way to dinner. true or false? of course it's true. he was headed to dinner last night. he spotted somebody along the edge of the street attempting to resuscitate someone. ordered the driver to stop. hopped out of the vehicle. ran the two man's aid. began giving cpr to give a security detail. they administered drugs and restarted her heart. reports say she is expected to live. so if you are keeping track at home, the governor has trapped an intruder in a revolving door, interrupt a debate to aid a citizen having a seizure and, pulled over to the side of the road to give cpr to one of his constituents, literally saving her life. also, he plays guitar. you wish you were the governor of oregon. or anywhere near that much of a bad ass. now it is time for "the last word." have a great night. i'm sorry i said ass.